Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis